dovecot vs. courier vs. cyrus-imap

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:

> You don't include uw-imapd as an option. I use it because it set up 
> easily with my postfix libranet-linux mail server, and works well. I 
> don't know about adding users, but all my users were immediately 
> available for secure (ssl) imap login.  On Libranet (Debian) the install 
> was simply "apt-get install uw-imapd" if I remember correctly. It's been 
> a while, so maybe there were more options to configure, but I don't 
> think so; it just worked.

I didn't include uw-imapd because I've never worked with imap before and the 
three I listed were ones I had seen mentioned in the Ubuntu forums. So I 
figured they were "safe" choices for such a system. And they were all ones I 
had heard of from my RH/FC exposure. I will investigate uw also.

Michael